In the Qingming Festival diet, there are different festive foods in different parts of the world. Due to the relationship between the Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival combined into one, some places still retain the Qingming Festival to eat cold food habits Qingming Festival diet
habit. In Shandong, eat eggs and cold steamed buns, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice, it is said that if not, you will be hail. Tai'an eat cold pancakes rolled raw bitter vegetables, said to eat the eyes bright. Jinzhong area still retains the custom of banning fire one day before Qingming. In this area of Wenzhou have eaten the custom of sheep dish cake, sheep dish cake as the name suggests is sheep dish cake, also known as the Qingming cake, sheep dish is according to the Wenzhou language translation, the original scientific name of it is the grass, is in the Qingming Festival will have. To do sheep's lettuce cake is very delicate, first to go to the ground to pick sheep's lettuce, (sheep's lettuce this thing is not planted, is every time this Qingming Festival will grow out of their own,) and then washed and dried, put into the inverted mortar, (the inverted mortar is a stone to do a kind of tool, they used to be used for pounding rice cakes with) pounded, and then put into the rice flour, (usually eight pounds of white rice flour, two pounds of glutinous rice flour) and then add the right amount of water to be put! Miancai all evenly into the rice flour on it, pouring well after we have to prepare the filling inside, filling is also an important process, we are here the most common is to use fresh bamboo shoots, tofu, pork, pickles (or shredded radish), copied, and so on, when the filling is cold can be wrapped up, we will be Miancai cake wrapped up after the bottom of the pomelo leaves must be put a, one, to avoid sticking to the pan, two, and is the most important, because after putting the pomelo leaves, the pomelo leaves are the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important, the most important is the pomelo leaves. Is because after putting the pomelo, this sheep vegetable cake will be more a kind of pomelo fragrance, delicious taste much better, packaged and put into the steamer on the steamer for 25 minutes can be. In many places, after the completion of the sacrificial ceremony, the sacrificial food will be divided to eat. Jinnan people over the Qingming, used to steam a large steamed bun with white flour, sandwiched between walnuts, jujube, beans, outside the disk into the shape of a dragon, the dragon in the middle of the body of an egg, called "Zifu". To steam a very large total "Zifu", symbolizing family reunion and happiness. When visiting the graves, the total "Zifu" is offered to the ancestral spirits, and the whole family shares it after sweeping the graves. The old custom in Shanghai is to use willow to run through the steamed cakes and cakes used in the festival, dry them and store them, and then on the day of the first summer, fry them in oil and give them to the children to eat, and it is said that they will not be affected by the resistance to summer after eating them. Shanghai Qingming Festival has the custom of eating green dumplings. Bird wheat grass juice and glutinous rice and pounded together, so that the green juice and rice flour fusion, and then wrapped with bean paste, jujube paste and other fillings, with the bottom of the reed leaves, into the steamer. Steamed out of the cage of green dumplings bright green color, aroma, is the most characteristic of the local Qingming Festival seasonal food. Some people in Shanghai love to eat peach congee on Qingming Festival, and they also love to use swordfish in grave sweeping and family banquets. In Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Qingming Festival family wrapped rice dumplings, can be used as offerings to the graves, but also to do trekking with dry food. As the saying goes, "Qingming zongzi stable firm." Before and after the Qingming Festival, snail fat. As the saying goes: "Qingming snail, race only goose." Farmers have the habit of eating snails at Ching Ming, this day with a needle to pick out the snail meat cooking, called "picking green". After eating the snail shells thrown to the roof, it is said that the rolling sound on the roof tiles can scare away rats, conducive to sericulture after Qingming. On the day of Ching Ming Festival, there is also a social wine. People of the same ancestral temple get together for a meal. For those who do not have an ancestral shrine, the grandchildren of each house under the same ancestor usually gather together for a meal. Social wine dishes, meat to fish and meat-based, vegetarian tofu and vegetables-based, wine to home brewed sweet white wine-based. Tongxiang Heshan Town, Zhejiang Province, there is a "Ching Ming is like a year," said the night of Ching Ming importance of the family reunion to eat dinner, the table is indispensable to such a few traditional dishes: fried snails, glutinous rice embedded lotus root, sprouting beans, Malan head, etc. These dishes are related to silkworms. These dishes are all related to sericulture. Throwing leftover snail shells into the house is said to scare away mice, and caterpillars will burrow into the shells to make nests and stop bothering the silkworms. Eating lotus root is to wish the silkworms long and good silk. Eating sprouted beans is a good way to get the slogan of "Haijia". Eat Malantou and other seasonal vegetables, is to take its "green" word, in line with the "Qingming" of "green".
The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to pay attention to the ban on fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, sticking willow. Legend has it that Qingming Festival tomb sweeping
This is because the cold food festival to cold food ban fire, in order to prevent cold food cold food injury, so we come to participate in a number of sports activities, in order to exercise